We use describing words (adjectives) in everyday situations to help us describe people, places and things! Using this WIKI, you are going to have the opportunity to learn about adjectives through a range of different activities!
1. Look up at the electronic whiteboard - put your hands up and tell me of some interesting words that we could use to describe the pictures that you can see.
2. Get a partner - someone sitting next to you.
3. Choose three pictures and with your partner try and come up with an interesting sentence. http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/clipart/default.aspx?ofcresset=1 OR http://www.aaaclipart.com/
4. Open up Photo Story
5. Using your pictures and sentences and with your partner make a slide show using Photo Story.
We use describing words (adjectives) in everyday situations to help us describe people, places and things! Using this WIKI, you are going to have the opportunity to learn about adjectives through a range of different activities!
Let's Get Started.....!
Lesson 1
1. Discussion - what are adjectives? Why do we use them
2. Click on the following link to watch the clip on Adjectives **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzGLzFuwxI**
3. Discussion - What were some of the adjectives used in the youtube clip?
4. Working by yourselves, you are to complete the following worksheets. You need to come up with as many words as possible to describe the
pictures and type them into the spaces that are there.
http://cristyandpaige.wikispaces.com/file/view/electronic+poster+1.docx
http://cristyandpaige.wikispaces.com/file/view/electronic+poster+2.doc
5. Share some of your ideas with your classmates!
6. Make sure you save your work to the desktop for marking please.
Lesson 2
1. Using the interactive whiteboard - we are going to play a game from 'The Learning Federation' website http://econtent.thelearningfederation.edu.au
2. Move back to seats.
3. Open up the following worksheet - can you use some of the adjectives in the box to help make the sentences more interesting.
http://cristyandpaige.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.png
4. Make sure you save your work to the desktop for marking please.
Lesson 3
1. Look up at the electronic whiteboard - put your hands up and tell me of some interesting words that we could use to describe the pictures that you can see.
2. Get a partner - someone sitting next to you.
3. Choose three pictures and with your partner try and come up with an interesting sentence. http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/clipart/default.aspx?ofcresset=1 OR http://www.aaaclipart.com/
4. Open up Photo Story
5. Using your pictures and sentences and with your partner make a slide show using Photo Story.
Lesson 4
1. Quick review of power - points, how to create a slide, insert images and texts and view slides once they are completed.
2. Open up lesson four template - http://cristyandpaige.wikispaces.com/file/view/Powerpoint+template.pptx
3. Students make up their own stories making sure they use a range of adjectives in each slide using power-point to display their work!
4. Can copy and paste pictures from this link http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/clipart/default.aspx?ofcresset=1 OR http://www.aaaclipart.com/
5. Assessed by a rubric.